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LIVE NOW: Hear directly from workers and organizers about conditions faced at warehouses, how Amazon puts lives at risk, and what we can do to support workers.

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@Dr_Maha_Hilal of @dcmuslimjustice opens things up, talking about @Amazon's professed "culture of safety" vs the reality of abandoning and endangering Amazon workers.
@Dr_Maha_Hilal @dcmuslimjustice @amazon Dan Stein of the @AwoodMpls talks about how Amazon moved into Minnesota, and targeting the Somali and East African community for recruitment--promising "good, safe, reliable jobs".

"But that's not what they found"

#ProtectAmazonWorkers #AmazonHurts #AntiBlackAmazon
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Today’s #MLK day converges with a lot.

1) Pandemic
2) Movement for Black lives
3) Anti-Democratic coup attempt
4) Unprecedented shuttering of small biz
5) Climate disaster at our door

All on the eve of the inauguration of Joe Biden, who must respond to all of it.

(1/)
Many players contributed to this, especially #BigTech. No player has more fingers in all of it than Jeff Bezos

@JoeBiden’s @Transition46 team considering Amazon insiders for positions designed to regulate Amazon is alarming

(2/) see @ddayen @ryangrim

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How does @Amazon contribute to each of these?

Amazon played fast and loose with the lives of its workers through the pandemic.

Even prior to COVID19, its injury rate was 2X industry's.

see #ProtectAmazonWorkers (3/)
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"Time off task"

"Rate"

Let's talk about what these Orwellian terms really mean at @Amazon and why lawmakers must step in to #ProtectAmazonWorkers.

(1/🧵) #PrimeDay2020

vice.com/en/article/jgx… Giant Amazon fulfillment center with hundreds of workers as
Farhiyo Warsame, an Amazon warehouse worker, was targeted, surveilled, and fired by @Amazon after speaking up about unsafe conditions at work, according to Athena member, the @AwoodMpls Center.

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#PrimeDay #ProtectAmazonWorkers Farhiyo Warsame wearing a COVID mask outside of Amazon.
"Time off task" or TOT

Amazon tracked Farhiyo Warsame's time in between each small task and used the accumulated extra seconds to justify threats for her eventual termination.

(3/🧵) #SafetyIsntSpying #ProtectAmazonWorkers Screenshot of a t-shirt Amazon sells to its own associates t
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